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theres a good chance your cpu was throttling while playing the game, keeping the temps stable but dropping the cpu speed.

Beating the accelero is no small task, and it does so without heating up the motherboard. Sounds like a winner to me.

Review of the cpu cooler (aluminum and copper version) here http://www.silentpcreview.com/article645-page1.html Review of gpu cooler (vs arctic silencer) http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/gpu-coo...otherm-gx810/1/

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Eh, it doesnt quite work that way but its a decent analogy. Higher interface is always better, as it is the interface width that helps determine total memory bandwidth. Generally speaking, 256Bit is standard on high end cards, 128 on midrange. It also happens to be why even with faster ememory clocks, mainstream cards dont have as much bandwidth. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/dis...00gt-xxx_2.html For example: 7600gt has 256MB ram, and a 128bit interface, with ram speed of 1400mhz (for a total of 22.4GB/sec) x1800 also has 256MB but has a 256bit interface, and ram at 1000Mhz. (for a total of 32GB/sec) The casual onlooker sees that the 7600gt has faster ram, but because of the 128bit interface it actually has less bandwidth. The formula ends up being bits x frequency (in ddr speed, not base frequency) /8, and the result is in Megabytes/sec Also, the radeon x1x series doesnt use a standard interface (they use a dual ring bus) and the high end versions are sometimes considered 512Bit interface, depending on the source.